Gas-burner.



.No. 853,021. PATENTED. MAY 7, 1907. J. L. MALONEY M. s. SPRINGER.

'GAS BURNER. APPLIOAT ION FILED APR.5,'1906.

WITNESSES:

A TT RNEYS sumnrcw, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT UFFIGE.

JOHN L. MALONEY AND EDWARD S. SPRINGER, OF LEAVEN'WORTH, KANSAS.

GAS-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May '7, 1907.

' Application filed April 5, 1906. Serial No. 810,121.

'and EDWARD S. SPRINGER, citizens of the United States, residing at Leavenworth, in the county of Leavenworth and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Gas- Burner, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to gas burners adapted especially for the consumption of natural gas; and it has for its objects to simplify and improve the construction and operation of this class of devices, and to provide a burner composed of a plurality ofsec- .tions adapted to be connected together and supported for operation without the use of bolts, screws, or similar fastening means.

With these and other ends in view, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention; it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, butthat changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the invention may be made, when desired.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a burner constructed inaccordance with the principles of the invention; the top member of one of the burner sections having been removed. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the plane indicated by the line 22 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation showing a portion of the inner side or face of one of the burner sections. Fig. 4 is a detail elevation of a portion of the outer edge of one of the burner sections. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the central ring or supporting member. Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the central ring or supporting member.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicated throughout by similar characters of reference.

The improved burner in its preferred form is composed of a central ring or member R and a plurality of burner sections S, S, combining to form an annulus surrounding the central ring, and connected with and supporting the latter. The ring R has been shown as constructed with a diametrical cross bar 1 constituting a handle whereby it may be conveniently manipulated; the under edge of the ring has a plurality of notches 2, 2, one for each burner section to be connected therewith, and adjacent to said notches, which are equi-distant from each other, there are formed outwardly extending lugs or shoulders 8, 3.

The burner may be composed of two or more sections S, S; in the accompanying drawings three such sections have been shown. Each of such sections is composed of a bottom member 4 and a top or cover member 5 combining to form a segmental casing; the bottom member 4 being dished, and the top member 5 being arched, as will be best seen'by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings. The bottom member 4 has an inlet aperture 6 surrounded by a depending internally threaded. flange 7 for the reception of the supply pipe; the top member 5 has been shown as provided with depending lugs 8 bearing against the upper surface of the bottom member for the purpose of spreading the gas, and also to strengthen the structure and prevent warping. The top and bottom members 5 and 4 are each provided with lateral flanges 9 which are apertured for the reception of connecting bolts or screws, as 10, which may be in the nature of ordinary stove bolts; the outer flange 9 of each bottom section is serrated, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, being provided with a plurality of approximately radial notches or recesses 11 and intermediate ribs 12, said notches constituting escape apertures for the gas, which is ignited as it escapes through said notches. v

The bottom member 4 of each of the burner sections is provided at its inner edge with a hook 13 adapted to engage one of the notches 2 of the ring R; lugs, as 14, being formed adjacent to the hook 13, and said lugs being adapted to rest upon the lugs or shoulders 3, 3 of the ring R; the several burner sections may thus be detachably connected with the said ring, which latter is supported upon the hooks 13 of the several burner sections, it being understood that the sections are supported on their respective inlet pipes the component parts of the burner may thus be very quickly and conveniently connected together for operation without the use of bolts or other fastening devices.

The operation and advantages of this invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed. In the construction of the improved burner, any desired number of burner sections or segments may be employed, and no limitation is made to theparticular shape or configuration of said sections or segments which, as well as the central ring, may be made poly onal, if desired. The burner of the present invention is adapted particularly for the consumption of natural gas, and it may be used in connection with stoves or furnaces of ordinary construction which have been piped for the gas supply. The improved burner may be assembled before or after placing in it the fire box of the stove or burners, the connection with the supply pipes being effected in the usual, or in any well known or convenient manner. Usually each of the burner sections will have an independently controllable gas supply, so that one or more burner sections may be used independently of the remaining ones. Each of the burner sections constitutes an independent gas reservoir of considerable capacity, and the fire will thereby be prevented from flashing out or being extinguished when the gas is turned In a gas burner, the combination with a A ring, a plurality of segmental burner sections arranged around the periphery of the ring and having radially extending abutting ends, and means for detachably connecting each section to the ring and for supporting the ring on the sections, said means comprising a horizontally extending hook on each section at the middle thereof, shoulders on opposite sides of the hook, vertically extending notches in one end of the ring for interlockin with the hook, and outwardly extending T ngs on the ring with which the said shoulders engage.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we have hereto aflixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN L. MALONEY. EDWARD S. SPRINGER. Witnesses:

A. D. MoMULLEN, V. E. GooDJoHN. 

